From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun May 12 04:12:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA15079 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 04:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA15021 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 04:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA25983; Sun, 12 May 1996 13:11:24 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199605121111.NAA25983@grumble.grondar.za> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing sound out of netscape Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 13:11:22 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Christoph P. Kukulies" wrote: > Has anyone managed to get sound (and video) out of a WWW browser? > E.g., netscape? Yup... > I started Navigator 2.0 (don't know if that one supports sound > already) and then I clicked the speaker symbol in netscapes > home page. All I got was flashing speakers and a fast looping > 'document finished' or something in the lower left where > the percentage loaded at x KB/s normally appears. > > I don't know though if that behaviour is a peculiarity of my ISDN > connection when the connection gets lost after a timeout. I had to install sox (from ports) and do some fiddling in mime.types, but I can now do .wav and .au files. (I suspect I can do a lot more, but I have not acually seen any others). This was with Netsape 2, and it also works with Netscape 3. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key